*NOTE* to find out what the page number is log into WordPress admin section and go to the “Pages” section. If you hover over the “Page Title” at the bottom of the webpage in the status bar you can tell what the page number is ( If anyone knows how to do this any better please let me know ) :

How to limit the number of posts in “the loop”. In this example I chose I wanted to only show 4 posts per page. I went even further by telling the “Query_posts” to only look for category 17 which on my website is my recipe category. This line MUST be inserted BEFORE “the loop”.